17 November

I wonder if we understand or even see our obsession with images. Old aristocratic homes were saturated with paintings. Today our favourite thing to share on social media is pictures. I think it’s usually the most taken for granted, habitual things that are the least understood. I’m sure the appeal is that images give a permanence or eternity to things that we don’t find in the things themselves. They’re our way to access eternity in everyday life. More proof is that fundamentalists are usually iconoclasts - they despise and destroy images. They see them as a direct threat to access to the eternal, which they see as restricted to God.